These researchers sought to determine if ethnic disparities in treatment and survival exist among a cohort of Māori (n=344) and non-Māori women (n=1567) with cervical cancer, who were retrospectively identified from the New Zealand Cancer Register between 1 January 1996 and 31 December 2006. Inequalities in incidence and mortality decreased over time. Over the entire cohort period, Māori women were more likely to be diagnosed at a later stage of disease and have poorer survival than non-Māori (stage-adjusted hazard ratio 1.64). However, survival disparities were also found to be decreasing over time. Māori women with cervical cancer had a slightly higher receipt of total hysterectomies, and similar receipt of radical hysterectomies and brachytherapy (age and stage adjusted).
